Environmental Integrity Project, Earthjustice and Sierra Club document to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection that demands the state agency deny a FirstEnergy application to dispose of coal ash from the Bruce Mansfield Power Plant to the closed Hatfield’s Ferry landfill.

Coal ash is the toxic waste formed from burning coal in power plants to make electricity. Hundreds of contaminated sites and spills have occurred among the 1,400+ coal ash waste dumps across the country.

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